historical fiction

In 1836, Englishwoman Lady Eleanor travels to India with her sister Harriet and her brother, Henry, the colony's new governor-general, and, during a three-year journey from Calcutta to the Punjab, falls in love with the land and finds her worldview turning on end.

Miguel Lienzo, a trader in Amsterdam's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews in 1659, is forced to test the limits of his commercial guile when he is offered a chance to recoup the fortune he lost in the sugar markets by cornering the market on a new commodity called coffee.

Young film assistant Nikolai Gribshin seizes a chance to transform himself and influence the course of history when he meets scientist Professor Vorobev, and the revolutionist Joseph Stalin while waiting in a remote Russian railway station in 1910 to record the last hours in the life of Leo Tolstoy.

William Shakespeare has been haunted by the ghost of the late Christopher Marlowe and wants nothing to do with him, until William's son disappears and Willaim calls in some favors from his ghostly companion.

A fictionalized account of the author's experiences growing up in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution.

Byron Aldridge's charmed life as the heir apparent to a Pennsylvania timber empire is shattered when he is sent to France to fight in World War I, and when he returns home, he must find a way to cope with his disturbing memories and his family's expectations.

A fictionalized account of Alexander's efforts to take the city of Halicarnassus in 334 B.C.

New England spinster Lily Hill finds her old-fashioned sense of hospitality stressed to its limits when she is invaded by her family in the summer of 1989, and things become even worse when a sociology student arrives hoping to use the Hills as the basis of his Ph.D. dissertation on intergenerational dynamics.

Jane Austen learns from an unexpected source about a traitor in their midst, and sets out on her own to uncover the individual, putting herself at great risk.

After moving from the mainland to a barren island, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper plants flowers in the cracks of the expanse of rock to help her mother adjust and finds she has cheered the local fishermen as well. Based on a true story.